Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) was a Marxist party in Hungary which existed from 31 October 1956 to 7 October 1989. Janos Kadar founded the MSZMP as a splintergroup of the Hungarian Working People's Party, and Kadar establishe a lenient communist society which was notably more gentle than Matyas Rakosi's dictatorship. In 1989, the party became the modern Hungarian Socialist Party after the downfall of the communist regime at the end of the Cold War.